Police beat

Northland: Manager reports his room at motel was burglarized

Monday September 2, 2013 9:05 PM

The manager of an East Dublin-Granville Road motel told Columbus police his on-site apartment was broken into between 10 p.m. Aug. 28 and 8 a.m. Aug. 29.

Police took fingerprints from a front window broken to gain access to the apartment. The manager said two televisions, speakers, a digital camera and zoom lens as well as a camcorder were stolen. He estimated the value of the items at $2,350. Damage to the window was set at $300.

In other recent Columbus Division of Police incident reports from the Northland area:

* A 29-year-old Weber Road woman accused a man of striking her in the face with a cell phone at 6 p.m. Aug. 23. The incident took place at her apartment. She was advised to contact the prosecutor's office.

* Whoever broke into a Forest Cedar Court home on the afternoon of Aug. 29 made off with a lot of household items, but also left some stuff behind.

The 45-year-old resident said trash and items of clothing not belonging to him were found after he discovered someone had stolen a flat-screen television, refrigerator, washer and dryer and television stand. The value of the missing items was set at $1,950.

* A 37-year-old Ferndale Place woman was charged with forgery at 1 p.m. Aug. 28 According to the arresting officer's report, she attempted to withdraw funds from a bank branch on Morse Road using a counterfeit check.

* A 22-year-old man said he was stabbed and robbed of $50 in cash by two people at the intersection of Morse and Karl roads at 5:17 p.m. Aug. 28.

* A 16-year-old girl filed a report at 2:59 p.m. Aug. 27 saying she had been kidnapped a little more than an hour earlier from an address in the 1700 block of East Dublin-Granville Road.

* A robbery was reported at a convenience store in the 1900 block of Morse Road at 5:40 a.m. Aug. 27.